How to Be a Better Person When You're Gay

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When you show straight men graphic, gay intercourse, anal intercourse, you get very strong emotional responses to that. And it changes psychological processing as well in terms of how they think about gay people. They become much more homophobic after being exposed to that type of material. Just trying to understand anybody who has different sexual desires than you is a really hard thing. You only understand it very theoretically and from an objective sort of removed perspective.

Psychologist and author Jesse Bering joins us to talk about evolutionary psychology and his forthcoming book Perv. In the relatively uncontroversial part of the episode, we ask if homophobia is an adaptation and if women have evolved rape defenses. After that, sex with animals, sex with bookshelves, foot fetishes, amputee fetishes, falling down the stairs fetishes... I don't know, just listen. Or maybe don't.

Jesse Bering [jessebering.com]

Perv (pre-order) by Jesse Bering [amazon.com]

"Darwin's Rape Whistle," by Jesse Bering [slate.com]

"Natural Homophobes?" by Jesse Bering [scientificamerican.com]

The Belief Instinct by Jesse Bering [amazon.com]

Why is the Penis Shaped Like That? by Jesse Bering [amazon.com]

"I think you're some kind of deviated prevert." [youtube.com]

Special Guest: Jesse Bering.

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